Westminster Insight Equal Access to Sport for Women & Girls Conference

Professor Pope gave a presentation at the conference which was entitled Women’s Safety at Sporting Events: Tackling Gendered Violence and Abuse in Sport. She was part of a panel looking at the impact of stereotyping, discrimination and online abuse and how this needs to be tackled both on and off the pitch.

Professor Pope discussed her ongoing work focused on evidence-based solutions to tackle gendered violence and abuse in men’s football, which is co-designed with police and in collaboration with other major stakeholders in football.

You can read more about Stacey’s work on men’s football and issues of sexism and misogyny here:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380385211063359